Chapter 53 This Girl is Nearsighted

Chapter 53: This Girl is Nearsighted

"The medical skills competition officially begins!"

"Now, let the first patient come on stage!"

The first to step onto the stage was a young woman in her twenties, with delicate, pretty features. She squinted and groped her way forward, taking each step very slowly.

The doctors present were all startled. Could the first patient be blind?

Blindness wasn't a difficult or rare illness—it was basically incurable, right?

If someone had lost their sight, how could it be cured? Prince Ye was a living example.

Many shook their heads and sighed. If the first round was this tough, the later ones would be even harder.

Just as some were starting to back out, Ji Yuntang keenly spotted the issue.

This wasn't blindness at all—it was clearly a case of severe nearsightedness.

As the saying goes, for a nearsighted person, ten meters away, you can't tell a person from a pet.

When they can't see distant objects clearly, squinting while walking makes their vision slightly sharper.

The woman stood still in the center of the square, then looked up at Luo Sinian, who was sitting on the judges' platform, frowning as he drank tea, mistaking him for the Crown Prince.

"A common woman greets the Crown Prince."

A woman below reminded her, "Zhaodi, that's not the Crown Prince. You're wrong. The one in the middle is the Crown Prince."

The woman named Zhaodi raised her head again, squinting for a long time. She could only see a blurry patch of blue clothing and still couldn't make out the Crown Prince's face.

"Forgive me, Your Highness the Crown Prince. I'm not blind, but my eyes see everything as a blur. Beyond a few zhang, I can't even tell men from women, let alone who's who. This condition has caused me a lot of trouble in life—it not only messes up my work but also makes others think I'm rude. I beg all the esteemed doctors here to help me treat my eyes. I'd be endlessly grateful."

As she spoke, she knelt and kowtowed to the Crown Prince.

However, the direction of her bow was still aimed at Luo Sinian.

Luo Jingshen's face was turning green. Here he was, a living person sitting in the center, yet he was being treated as a backdrop, with her turning to Luo Sinian and calling him the Crown Prince while bowing.

But since the woman couldn't see clearly, there was really no point in arguing with her about it.

"Can any of you treat her?"

Luo Jingshen's gaze swept over the crowd below. An elderly doctor immediately stood up.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, let this old man try to help this young lady!"

He took a piece of paper from his medicine boy, tore it into a small circular hole, walked over, and placed it in front of the woman's eyes.

"Look through this hole. Can you see people clearly?"

Zhaodi obediently did as she was told. Looking through the hole, she found it was indeed much clearer than squinting.

"It really works! I think I can see clearly now!"

Before the elderly doctor could rejoice too long, Xie Liuzheng's amused voice rang out from below.

"So, is she supposed to walk around with a piece of paper over her eyes from now on? That hole you tore isn't even as big as a sesame seed. I doubt she can see much through it, can she?"

The smile on the elderly doctor's face gradually faded.

That was true—wearing a piece of paper over her eyes wasn't practical. But since his method had been effective for the woman, he smoothly passed the first round.

The next doctor to step up was a middle-aged man, who pulled out his treasured possession.

A magnifying glass.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, this item in my hands was brought over from the West, passed down from my great-great-great-grandfather to me. It makes small things big and big things even bigger. I believe it will surely help this young lady see clearly."

As the man spoke, everyone stared at the object in his hand in amazement.

Could this transparent thing, no bigger than a walnut, really be that miraculous?

On the judges' platform, Luo Jingshen, Luo Feizhou, and Luo Sinian all looked on curiously, but after staring for a long time, they couldn't figure it out.

When Zhaodi placed the magnifying glass over her eyes, everything she looked at became grotesquely magnified. Someone even opened a huge mouth, startling her.

"It's... it's terrifying! I don't dare use it..."

Zhaodi's face turned pale with fright, and she threw the magnifying glass back to the doctor.

Rather than having everything distorted and magnified, she'd prefer to see nothing at all.

Ji Yuntang raised an eyebrow. She didn't expect such a curious item as a magnifying glass to exist in ancient times.

That was somewhat interesting.

However, using a magnifying glass for nearsightedness was clearly inappropriate.

Not to mention, there was only one of them.

Then, one after another, doctors came on stage, using acupuncture or herbal fumigation to treat Zhaodi, but the results were minimal.

Ji Qingqing watched from below with growing excitement. So many doctors had failed, so that village girl Ji Yuntang would surely have no solution either.

She couldn't wait to see how Ji Yuntang would handle this.

"I wonder if Sister has any method to help this young lady see clearly?"

As Ji Qingqing's words fell, everyone's gaze turned to Ji Yuntang.

Over a dozen doctors had already tried, but Ji Yuntang sat there as if nothing was happening, completely unmoved.

Luo Feizhou took a sip of tea, his gaze drifting lazily toward Ji Yuntang.

"This prince also wishes to know, what brilliant idea does Princess Ye have?"

Ji Yuntang stood up, a faint smile curling on her red lips. "I don't have any brilliant ideas, but I do have a way to let her see clearly and live like a normal person."

At these words, the entire audience erupted in shock!

No one had dared to guarantee they could cure Zhaodi, yet she was so confident. How could the crowd not be astonished?

A doctor stepped forward to mock her, "Little girl, you're like a newborn calf unafraid of tigers. In front of so many of us old doctors, you dare to speak such big words. Aren't you afraid of biting your tongue?"

"Whether I'm speaking big words or not, you'll find out soon enough."

Ji Yuntang curled her lips, took the medical case from Tao Zhi, and stepped forward.

She opened the medicine box and, using it as cover, took out an eye chart from her hidden space. She then walked to a spot five meters away and taped the chart to a board.

Since the eye chart didn't have a light, Ji Yuntang had Zhaodi move one meter closer.

Everyone was baffled by her actions, wondering what her deal was.

The chart she brought out was full of weird symbols, but none of them could understand it.

Ji Yuntang took out a spoon and handed it to Zhaodi. "When I point to a letter with this stick, tell me which direction the opening faces. If you can't see it clearly, just shake your head. First, cover your left eye with this spoon, and we'll test the vision in your right eye."

Zhaodi obediently followed the instructions.

Ji Yuntang pointed from the bottom upward. Zhaodi couldn't make out most of the last ten rows, and she shook her head, blushing.

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